254 LXXVIII. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Brachyactis. 



sparingly silky; pappus scanty, | in. long, reddish. In luxuriant specimens the 

 leaves are 2-3 by 1-1 in. and very membranous. 



3. B. robust a, Benth. in Hook. Ic. PL undtr t. 1106 ; stout, annual, 



glandular-pubescent, erect, branched, leaves obovate toothed narrowed into a 

 short petiole, receptacle broad. Conyza pubescens, DC. Prodr. v. 381. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA, alt. 4-14,000 ft., from Kashmir to Kumaon and Gurwhal, 

 Falconer, Edgeworth, &c. WESTERN TIBET, alt. 12-14,000 ft., Thomson, &c. 



Possibly only a large form of B. umbrosa, the heads are in. diam., but the 

 achenes and pappus are no longer. 



22. ERIGERON, Linn. 



Characters of ASTEB, but ray-flowers usually in several rows with very 

 slender short or long ligules, and the achenes narrower. Pappus often double, 

 the outer of a few short hairs or bristles. DJSTEIB. Species about 100, chiefly 

 natives of N. Temp, regions, extremely variable and difficult to discriminate 

 from one another, and certain of them from species of Aster. 



E. linifolius, Willd. (Boiss. Fl. Orient, iii. 169), is found as an escape, or a garden 

 weed, in the Punjab and elsewhere. It is a stout erect hirsute herb, with leafy stem 

 and branches, the leaves are close-set, 2-2 by |-^- in., serrated here and there, the 

 numerous peduncled heads are subpaniculate and i- in. in diam. It is the Conyza 

 angustifolia of Thwaites Herb. (C. P. 3928) but not of Hamilton. 



1. Species of the tropical region. 



1. E. canadensis, Linn. ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iii. 163; annual, very 

 slender, much branched above, pubescent hirsute or nearly glabrous, leafy, 

 leaves narrow linear or linear-lanceolate entire or toothed, heads - in. diam. 

 peduncled in elongated branched panicles, invol. bracts narrow glabrate, ligules 

 erect pink, pappus dirty white. 



WESTEKN HIMALAYA and the PUNJAB, ascending to 3000 ft. ROHILKUND, Thomson. 

 DISTRIB. All warm countries, assumed to be a native of N. America. 



Stem 6 in.-3 ft. and branches erect, more slender than in any other Indian species, 

 and the heads smaller. Invol. bracts acuminate ; ligules pale rosy or purplish, 

 scarcely exceeding the pappus. Achenes -fa in. narrow, Hat, nearly glabrous; pappus 

 *in. 



2. E. asteroides, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 432 ; pubescent or villous, branched, 

 radical leaves obovate petioled cauline obovate or oblong ^-amplexicaul all 

 toothed or lobulate, heads - in. peduncled solitary or subcorymbose, ligufe? 

 capillary blue rather longer than the reddish or dirty white pappus. Wall. Cat. 

 3052 A. E. hispidum, DC. in Wight Contrib. 9; Prodr. v. 292; Clarke 

 Comp. Ind. 54. E. sublyratum, Roxb. in DC. I. I. c. c. ; Clarke I. c. 55, 301. 

 E. hirsutum, Wall. Cat. 2976. E. aegyptiacum, Kurz in Joum. As. Soc. 1877, 

 ii. 193. Conyza graveolens, Wall. Cat. 3106. C. segyptiaca, Herb. Ind. Or. 

 Hf. $ T., not of Ait. C. Jerdoni, Clarke Comp. Ind. 62. 



TROPICAL HIMALAYA; Nipal, Wallich; Sikkim, ascending to 4000 ft., J. D. H. 

 BENGAL and the WESTERN PENINSULA. 



A coarse annual, 1-2 ft. high, erect, or in a dwarf state decumbent, closely re- 

 sembling Conyza (egyptiaca. Cauline-leaves -1 in., numerous. Invol. bracts 1-2- 

 seriate, very narrow with hair points, much shorter than the pappus. Achenes very 

 minute, ^ in., nearly glabrous, flat, pale. Blumea pubiflora, under which Roxburgh's 

 E. asteroides is quoted by DC. as a synonym, appears from the description to be a true 

 Blumea, but of Wallich's 2975 Erigeron asteroides, Roxb. also quoted under the same 



